-Down to Earth The employment scheme worked as a lifeline for rural Indian households during the COVID-19 pandemic Lack of awareness and complexity of application process hold women back from applying for work under the central government’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), according to a recent report. Women beneficiaries struggled to enrol in the scheme, the report suggested. Most of them found enrolling for work a complex and time-consuming process....
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Water conservation and NREGA in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh -Manish Dungdung
-India Water portal NREGA has emerged as a go-to scheme for water conservation in tribal areas leading to higher irrigation coverage and thus augmenting agricultural production Out of India’s total population of 1210.19 million, 104 million, i.e., 8.6% are tribal (Census, 2011), India has one of the highest diversity among the tribes in the world. Broadly tribal inhabit two distinct geographical areas – the Central Indian Tribal Belt and the North-East. About...
More »More Than Half of Deaths in India Are Due to Cancer, Diabetes, Heart and Respiratory Diseases
-TheWire.in Noncommunicable diseases cause not only morbidity and mortality but also significantly impact economies because they limit the ability of people to work, a WHO report said. New Delhi: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) contribute to 66% of all deaths occurring in India, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has found. NCDs, as the name suggests, are diseases that are not passed from one person to another and are mostly lifestyle-related. The major NCDs are...
More »Noncommunicable diseases now ‘top killers globally’ – UN health agency report
-United Nations News From heart disease to cancer and diabetes, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) now outnumber infectious diseases as the “top killers globally,” the UN health agency said in a new report, released on Wednesday, with one person under 70 dying every two seconds from an NCD. The report and new data portal, was launched on the sidelines of the 77th session of the General Assembly, at an event co-organized by the World...
More »Non-communicable diseases cause nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world: WHO report -Sneha Mordani
-India Today Non-communicable diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and lung disease cause more deaths than infectious diseases globally, according to a WHO report. Nearly three-quarters of all deaths in the world are caused by non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illnesses and 17 million people under the age of 70 die of NCDs every year, according to a report by the World Health Organisation. The WHO report, released...
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